Navia arida Senecio A new variegated sport of

A new variegated sport of this already beautiful Bill

now deceased and missed by many in the bromeliad community

’  Owing to its ancestry

Named in honor of John David Higgs

This peculiar aberration remains stable

Navia arida Senecio A new variegated sport ofA spectacular plant in one of the more obscure genera of bromeliads. Grows upright at first to 18 inches or more, and then flattens out when in bloom and flushes orange in the center with yellow sepals and petals tipped with red in a nidular inflorescence. With good culture, can reach an astonishing 4 feet across! A native of the Venezuelan 'Lost World or 'Guyana Shield' of Bolivar State where it grows as a lithophyte or terrestrial, in rock crevices